For me at least is... A long time ago, I used to use a programming language that let me set breakpoints and when the code stopped, I could inspect all the variables, change them (the code would roll back to where the earliest change was)... call non-existent functions which would raise an error but then I could create and code those called functions.... and then let the code just "carry on" as if nothing had happened. This suited my way of working because I could see exactly what objects I was dealing with at any time. It suited me because I might create a method called "addToCache"... knowing I needed it... and then code it whilst the code patiently waited for me to get on and make that code... It was amazing.... and with it, I was, for a while, amazingly productive...
Imagine being able to stop in Views.py and see exactly what object type a given DB call returns... rather than fishing around for clues using print statements. I'm very excited because Django seems to be tantalisingly close to being able to operate something like this! I use a Mac... and the 2 python development environments that have cool debuggers are ScrIDE (free) and Komodo (commercial). I have just tried running the Django server in ScrIDE and had 3 problems. The first I think is that ScrIDE maybe doesn't pick up all the right environment variables (fixable). The second is that I suspect it has flaky indentation parsing (which I tried to fix in the django source but ended causing knock-on errors)... and lastly... ScrIDE doesn't let me run manage.py with arguments. Komodo is a much bigger beast of an IDE. It can let me send args to manage.py, it doesn't foul up indentation, it is a much more well- tested and reliable tool AND it runs on most platforms.... ( I guess something like Eclipse could do this but for me that is waaaaay too big a beast...) Has anyone tried running Django from within an IDE with the ability to set breakpoints? Does anyone have ideas/experience about this? tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
